The Most Serene Republic of Never End is a small, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 40 million Never Endians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Never Endian economy, worth 1.11 trillion It's Time For Thes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 27,687 It's Time For Thes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, and it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Never End's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Never End is ranked 299,108^th in the world and 11^th in Its Time For The for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -11.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.